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Kay ([personal profile] sincere) wrote2006-09-08 07:25 am
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Budget Woeee

Does anyone know anything about Washington Mutual, aka WaMu?

Does anyone know anything about banks they would / wouldn't recommend? I'd really appreciate the advice. Carrying around $5000 in checks all the time isn't helping me budget.
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[identity profile] yashahime.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
I personally would recommend Commerce, if there's one around--WaMu isn't much worse than most.

I HEARTILY endorse the OMG NOES! about Bank of America, though. They are the fucktards who wound up screwing my credit over so bad that for a while I could not get a checking account in the state of Delaware.
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[identity profile] kay-willow.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
I've never heard of them before! But Bank of America now sounds TERRIFYING. XD

[identity profile] yashahime.livejournal.com 2006-09-08 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
When I lived out in Long Beach, they were right by the post office, an easy and free ride by downtown mini-bus, and a six-block walk if I wasn't feeling lazy.

They told me that in order to open a checking account, I would have to also open a credit card account.

They gave me a limit of $2,000.

They still haven't gotten a dime out of me on it. But while I have a certain culpability there, they ALSO claim to let you deposit in any bank in any state, but that is a lie, a dirty lie, and I had to do special "out of state" deposits when I moved back to Delaware...from Aberdeen, MD, no less, that being the closest branch office. And they charged me FEES for every "out of state deposit." Other banks didn't like seeing my account overdrawn repeatedly.

Plus their customer service sucks.
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